Design and
the Domestication of ICTs: Technical Change and Everyday Life.
I found that they discussed the idea and
influence of everyday things and its effect within design. Though there is the
increasing evidence in the technological innovation in engineering in both new
and old technologies of aesthetics in material functions.
Explaining the process of analyzing the
particular characteristics of the use and focusing on the interrelationship of
design and domestication and what role they play.
Exploring the idea of the design within a
standpoint or the political and cultural state of society and the effect it has
on the consumer. Influences in advertisement that play on the fact of the
essential parts for different objects within their design and how the effect
the majority of the consumer. Thus they discussing many ideas within the topic
of everyday design showing the many spectrums that it holds; giving a detailed
standpoint to its idea.
R. and Mansell, R (1996)
(eds) Communication by Design. The Politics of Information and Communication
Technologies, Oxford University Press, Oxford
Return to
the tradition: DIY Design.
This
Article explains the understanding that DIY design is the role of handmade
design compared to the more convenient mass manufactured products that lines
the shelves.
It
analyzes the characteristics of DIY and the individualities that it holds for
the maker such, personality, uniqueness and manual traces.
It
continues on to discuss the idea of the disappearance of Handmade craft within
society, and the ever rising popularity of DIY design. It tries to work out the
possibility of combining both Handmade craft and DIY i.e. simplification,
modernization, education and industrialism. By trying to capitalize on this and
rake in the riches of this profit by the combination of both for a broader
space for its change.
Dept. of Art, Huangshi Inst. Of
Technol,26-29 Nov.2009, Return to the tradition: DIY Design, Huanshi, China.
Pg. 1774 – 1777.
Critical
Design: Agroindustral Project Analysis.
This
book looks into the critical design within the development of countries and how
they are affected by the agroindustral projects in the more industrialized
environments.
It
begins to expand on the components of agroindustral activity through the method
of explaining of the raw materials, processing and marketing.
It
begins to expand later on within chapter 3 about Critical design ideas with the
operating characteristics of food processing tech. Looking over the various
necessities that are required within this field and their effects on the
surrounding area.
This
book sums up many ideas of critical thinking within design and how to associate
them with key ideas and what is required within the field.
James E. Austin, 1992,EDI Series in Economic
Development. Second Edition. Agroindustral project analysis, USA, Washington.
Privacy in
Video Surveilance:
This
article explains what privacy we really do have both through the internet and
that of video footage. As stated that giving up privacy for the sake of easy searching
and greater security as it does not “ require a loss of privacy” to do so. Even
though there are many technologies that are created in this ploy to protect us.
It
explains that practically everything we use in our daily lives have some
relation to keeping tabs on us. As the age of technology continues so too does
the surveillance kept on and ever increasing. There are some things that were
unaware of such as “As an alternative to transmitting video, smart cameras can
produce two separate data streams: a metadata stream describing, for instance,
trajectories of people or vehicles (behavioral data) and a stream of images
capturing the identity.”
Andrea Cavallaro, march 2007, IEEE Signal
processing magazine, Queen mary University of London , United kingdom.
